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KYRIAKOS ROKOS (Greece, Ioannina b. 1945 / act: Athens) |
Kyriakos Rokos was born on 27 May 1945 at Ioannina, Northern Greece. He studied sculpture at the Athens School of Fine Arts - ASFA under professor Yannis Pappas. With a scholarship from the Academy of Athens, he went to Paris to worked with Costas Coulentianos and study at École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts undrer César Baldaccini.Kyriakos Rokos presented the following personal exhibitions: Nees Morfes Gallery, Athens (1972, 1978); Gallery ZM, Thessaloniki (1972); Embroidery and Boxes, Polyplano Gallery, Athens (1976); Panselinos Art Gallery, Thessaloniki (1978); Retrospective Exhibition, Athens College, Athens (1979); Aixoni Art Gallery, Glyfada (1984); Kamara Art Gallery, Monemvasia (1985); Athens Art Gallery, Athens (1985, 1991, 1995); Galerie Mutter Fourage, Berlin (1986); Ariadne Gallery, Heraklion (1987); Agathi Art Gallery, Athens (1988, 1993, 1996); Saint Brieux, France (1990); Argo Art Gallery, Nicosia (1992); Exhibition Hall, Town Hall, Ioannina (1993); Triple Exhibition, Institut Français - Terracotta Art Gallery - Goethe-Institut, Thessaloniki (1995); Art Gallery, Theatre, Lamia (1997); Hyakinthos Art Gallery, Athens (1998); Amymone Art Gallery, Ioannina (1998, 2005), Ekfrasi Gallery, Glyfada (1998); Ekfrasi - Yianna Grammatopoulou, Athens (2002, 2005, 2008); Chryssa Art Gallery, Katerini (2007); Periplanisi Art Gallery, Glyfada (2007); Retrospective Exhibition, Konstantinos Katsaris Foundation, Ioannina (2008); Retrospective Exhibition, Multispace Apollon, Piraeus (2009); Evangelos Averoff Gallery, Metsovo (2010); Rokos & Sarelakou, Dryades - Arcadian Museum of Art & History, Levidi, Arcadia (2010).
Artworks by Kyriakos Rokos are kept at the following institutions: The American College of Greece - ACG Art, Athens. He collaborated with the Karolos Koun Art Theater, the National Theatre and the District Theatre of Ioannina. He published the following books: Designs (1972); Imprints 1967-1975 (1978); Travels with a Ballpoint Pen (Apivita 1994); A Dangerous Sculptor (Kastaniotis 1996); Sculpture in Plain View (2002); and 31 Designs and 1 Sculpture seek a Poet (2005). Between 1981-1983 he taught freehand drawing at the Vacalo School of Art & Design in Athens. He is professor of sculpture at the Department of Conservation of Antiquities and Works of Art at the Technological Educational Institute - TEI of Athens.
[Megakles Rogakos 05/2009]
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